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Editorials on Bhima Koregaon – Distorting the Realities
On 8th January 2018, two leading dailies Indian Express (henceforth Express) and the Times of India (henceforth Times) carried main editorials on Bhima Koregaon. They have come up with different an…
Caste of Music – Why Pa Ranjith is Right to launch “Casteless Collective”
Pa Ranjith is one of the leading filmmakers of India. His two movies created earthquakes in the Indian cinema: Madras and Kabali. He is a creative genius and a sensible fighter for the rights of th…
The Ghost of Caste and Vedas
We have been told oftentimes that the Vedas are the fountainhead of knowledge. If one probes what is it that makes it a fountainhead of knowledge, the answer thrown to the questioners is that it ha…
Castes and Myths – Bust the Myths
Hinduism is a conglomeration of superstitions and myths. – Arthur Miles
Castes are unreal. Unlike other forms of discrimination which can be attributed to physical aspects (like the skin colour,…
Data From 8 RTI Replies Show How Deep Rooted Caste Discrimination is at Public Sector Organisations
‘Where there is a will there is a way’, you might have heard this proverb many times in your life but in India especially this doesn’t hold true. Another version of this proverb is much more releva…
Raging Political War in India – Gujarat Elections
The Gujarat elections will be an important indicator of the things to come in the future. The Indian Express today carried a brilliant piece of Gujarat election by Christophe Jaffrelot and Kalaiyar…
Caste Equation, Politics and Upcoming Elections in Gujarat
It appears that the Congress Party has started talking to “dissidents” of the caste system. The press reported that one of the famous leaders of SC, ST, and OBC Ekta Manch, Alpesh Thakore, is joini…
Exclusion in Schools – A Study on Practice of Discrimination and Violence
Dalit children being made to sit and eat separately from other children, being beaten, abused and forced to do humiliating tasks, form part of the cases uncovered during the ‘Zero Discrimination in…
Caste – A Personal Perspective
The article below was originally published in 1994 in Blackwell Publishers/Sociological Review UK titled Contextualising Caste: Post-Dumontian Approaches, edited by Mary Searle-Chatterjee and Ursul…
Why India Needs Independent Judiciary?
There is a growing debate in India about the Judiciary and its role. The successive judgements of the SC have created a kind of euphoria over the Judicial activism in our country. The SC is the cus…
Vedic Education in India – RSS/BJP Wants to Push India Into Dark Age
As the great John Dewey said, golden age lies in the future, not in the past. The India’s upper castes have always been trying to invent that lost age in India: the Golden Vedic period. If we study…
Why was Narendra Dabholkar Killed? For Challenging Hindu Orthodoxy
Narendra Dabholkar was assassinated by the far-right forces in India. Far Right in India has been posing a great danger to India as a nation. Why was Narendra Dabholkar killed?
He was trying to …
The Question of Caste – Excerpts from Charles Sumner’s 1869 Lecture
Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the …
Interrogating the Savarna Self – Managing Casteism in the Grab of ‘Merit’
Reservations to thik hai, magar merit se compromise karna thik nahi
A friend of mine tells me about the implementation of reservation policy in educational institutes. A sensible person can read…
Climate Change and Caste
In the recent flood in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, 1200 people got killed and millions got displaced. The rise in global temperature increases the capacity of the air to hold and carry more water…